Associate Professor of Art, Austin College, Sherman, TX
1980 - 1981
NEA Individual Artist's Fellowship
1981 - 1982
NEA Individual Artist's Fellowship
1984
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1988
Awards in Visual Arts Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
1992
Distinguished Teaching of Art Award College Art Association
1995
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
Currently lives and works in Fort Worth, TX
Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL Castellani Art Museum, Niagra University, NY Center for Createive Photography, Tucson, AZ Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS El Paso Art Museum, El Paso, TX High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Hunter Museum, Chattangooga, TN Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, KA Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL Lannan Foundation, Sante Fe, NM Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, CA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Tyler, TX University Art Museum, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Whitney Museum of American Art
1978 - present
Regents Professor of Art, Univ. of North Texas Denton, TX
Exhibitions
2009
Trouble in Paradise at the Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
2009
Seomi & Tuus Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
2008
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2007
Vernon Fisher: Two Decades of Prints and Drawings, Landfall Press Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
2006
Misleading Trails, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
2006
North American Birds, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2005
American Tragedy, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY *
2005
A Summer Group, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Masters of Illusion: 150 years of Trompe L'Oeil in America, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing MI
2005
Artist Interrogate: Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
2005
Notes For a New Novel, The University of Alabama Sarah Moody Gallery, Tuscaloosa, Alabama -solo
2004
Brainiac, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX -solo Vernon Fisher 1977-82, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA -solo
2004
Misleading Trails, China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing, China: travels to:NIU Art Museum, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL; University Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Hanes Art Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC; Vanderbilt University Art Gallery, Nashville, TN; Boyden Gallery, St. Mary’s of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD
2004
Vernon Fisher 1977-82, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
2004
Waterworld, Southbend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN.
2004
There, there, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2004
A Sharp Eye: An Art Dealer’s 40 Year Journey, Evanston Art Center, IL
2003
Arthouse, Austin, TX. Beyond the Academy: Encouraging New Talent from Texas.
2003
The Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX. Pairings: artists’
2003
Selections from the Dallas Museum of Art Collection.
2003
Brainiac, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2003
David Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX -solo Vernon Fisher: Brainiac, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX -solo
2002
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA -solo Vernon Fisher: New Paintings, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY -solo
2002
Scottsdale Museum of Comtemporary Art, AZ. The Cultural Desert: Inside Contemporary Sculpture
2002
Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art at University of Texas at Austin, TX.Time/Frame.
Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Tacoma Art Museum, traveling internationally
2000
Zulu, Dunn and Brown Contemporary Dallas, TX -solo Natural Deceits, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX -solo Vernon Fisher's File OO, The Glassell School of Art, the Mus. of Fine Arts Houston, TX -solo Reconstructions: The Imprint of Nature/ The Impact of Science, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College New York, NY 2000 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
1999
Vernon Fisher, Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX -solo Altered States, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX Texas Draws, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
1998
MAP 1998 (installation), Miami Art Museum -solo Hills Like White Elephants, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY -solo Zombies, Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica, CA-solo Vernon Fisher: Recent Work, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL -solo Works on Paper: A to Z, 1960-1998, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA
1997
Vernon Fisher, Gerald Peters Gallery Dallas, TX -solo Vernon Fisher Blackboard Paintings and Others, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO -solo Four Ways to Enter a Story, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Fort Worth, TX -solo Finders/Keepers, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX Zombies, Gerald Peters Gallery Dallas, TX Blurring the Boundaries: Installation Art 1969-1996, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
1996
"New Talent - New Ideas", Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY "Summer Show", Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY Black and White, Gallery Seomi Seoul, Korea Works on Paper, Barry Whistler Gallery Dallas, TX Devin Borden/ Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica, CA
1995
Gallery Seomi Seoul, Korea Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX "Heart of Darkness", Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica, CA Milagros San Antonio, TX "Color in Space: Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture", List Art Center Brown University, Providence, RI
1994
"Altered Egos", Santa Monica Museum of Art Santa Monica, CA "Fictions", Center for Creative Photography Tucson, AZ "Mapping", The University of Texas at San Antonio San Antonio, TX "Out of This World", Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX "Swimming Lesions", Blue Star Art Space San Antonio, TX Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, IL Gallery Seomi Seoul, Korea Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL Mark Moore Gallery Santa Monica, CA Zolla Lieberman Gallery Chicago, IL
1993
Landfall Press Chicago, IL Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX Modernism San Francisco, CA "Darkness + Light, Twentieth-Century Works from Texas Collections", Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery University of Houston, TX "Reading Print", Museum of Modern Art NYC
1992
"Beyond Just Words: I", Modernism San Francisco, CA "Out of Bounds: Contemporary Sculpture Takes Shape", Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX The Center for Creative Photography University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
1991
Yellowstone Art Center Billings, MT Fred Hoffman Gallery Los Angeles, CA Center for Contemporary Art Sacramento, CA "Little Things (Slice It Down to Size) Mean A Lot", Momentary Modern Amsterdam, Netherlands "The Perfect World", San Antonio Museum of Art San Antonio, TX
1990
Museum of Modern Art New York, NY "1990 Triennial", Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix, AZ
1989
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art La Jolla, CA Interim Art London, England Fred Hoffman Gallery Santa Monica, CA Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, NY "A Brave New World", Karsten Schubert, Ltd. London, England Unstable Universe, Asher-Faure Gallery Los Angeles, CA "Painting Beyond the Death of Painting", Kuznetsky Most Exhibition Hall Moscow, Russia
1988
"Awards in the Visual Arts 7", Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA "Looking South: A Different Dixie", Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham, AL "New York, New York", Spencer Museum of Art University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS & traveling Dallas Museum of Art Dallas, TX Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
1987
Barbara Gladstone Gallery New York, NY Hiram Butler Gallery Houston, TX "Avant-Garde in the Eighties", Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA "Past Imperfect: Eric Fischl/Vernon Fisher/Laurie Simmons", Walker Art Center Minmeapolis, MN & traveling "Comic Iconoclasm", Institute of Contemporary Arts London, England & traveling
1986
Asher-Faure Gallery Los Angeles, CA "Seventy-Fifth American Exhibition", Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL "Wallworks", , John Weber Gallery New York, NY "Memento Mori", Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo Mexico City, Mexico "Text and Image, The Wording of American Art", Holly Solomon Gallery NYC
1985
Butler Gallery Houston, TX
1984
Barbara Gladstone Gallery New York, NY "Words Pictures", Bronx Museum of the Arts Bronx, NY "Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C. "Narrative Forms", Museo Rufino Tamayo Mexico City, Mexico
1983
"1984", Ronald Feldman Gallery New York, NY "The 38th Corcoran Biennial Exhibition of American Painting", Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. "The Comic Art Show", , Whitney Museum of Amer. Art at Fed. Reserve Plaza Mew York, NY "Language, Drama, Source and Vision", , The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY Madison Art Center Madison, WI
1982
Galerie T'Venster Rotterdam, Netherlands "Fifth India Triennial", Fifth India Triennial New Delhi, India "The Americans: The Collage", Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX "Mediums of Language", Hayden Gallery MIT, Cambridge, MA
1981
"19 Artists--Emergent Americans: 1981 Exxon National Exhibition", The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY "1981 Biennial Exhibition", Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY "Directions 1981", Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Barbara Gladstone Gallery New York, NY
1980
Denise Rene/Hans Mayer Gallery Dusseldorf, Germany "Investigations: Probe-Structure-Analysis", The New Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY
1977
"American Narrative/ Story Art 1967-1977", Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX & traveling
Literature
2004
Frank, Peter. “Vernon Fisher.” L.A. Weekly, March 3-9.
